The Russian Daria Kasatkina won her seventh title on the WTA circuit this Saturday in Eastbourne by defeating the Canadian Leylah Fernández in the final 6-3, 6-4.
Kasatkina, in just under two hours, closed a fantastic week with her first title on grass, after eliminating Emma Raducanu in the quarterfinals and Jasmine Paolini in the semifinals.
This breaks a streak of five consecutive final losses and adds his first title since August 2022. In addition, he already has trophies on all three surfaces: grass, clay and cement.
With this title, the Russian moves up two positions in the rankings and is now twelfth in the WTA rankings, four positions away from her best result, when she was eighth in October 2022.
At Wimbledon, where her best result is the 2018 quarterfinals, Kasatkina starts as the fourteenth seed.
Shnaider, champion in Bad Homburg
Young Russian tennis player Diana Shnaider, 20, won this Saturday her second title of 2024 and of her young career on the WTA circuit by winning the final of the 500 in Bad Homburg (Germany) against the Croatian Donna Vekic by 6-3, 2-6 and 6-3.
Shnaider, who defeated Spaniard Paula Badosa in the quarterfinals, made her debut in early February at the 250 tournament in Hua Hin (Thailand). And this Saturday, almost six months later, she added her second.
She becomes the sixth player, and the youngest, to win more than one tour-level singles title this year. She joins Poland’s Iga Swiatek, world number one and tour leader with five titles; Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina and Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko, three-time champions; and American Danielle Collins and Britain’s Katie Boulter, two-time winners.
Shnaider, who entered the tournament ranked No. 47 in the world, the highest of her career, will rise to No. 30 starting Monday after a week in which she beat three-time Grand Slam champion German Angelique Kerber, the semifinalist of the Australian Open the Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, Paula Badosa and the number 3 seed the American Emma Navarro. Last year at this time she was ranked 98th.
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“It’s been an incredible week for me. I’ve had one of the best weeks of my life, so I hope to continue like this,” Shnaider said in a statement released by the WTA.
In the final, both players hit more winners than unforced errors and 16 aces. Efficiency on break points proved crucial: Shnaider converted four of six and saved 10 of Vekic’s 13, allowing her to take the match despite having won fewer points overall, the WTA reports.
2024-06-29 14:43:08
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